Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Victoria Kahn and Neil Saccamano 1
4. Tempering The Grandi’S Appetite To Oppress 7
5. Difficult Engagements 30
6. The Bachelor State 49
7. Hobbes’S Revolution 75
8. Happy Tears 93
9. The Desire to Live 111
10. A Mind for Passion 131
11. Rousseau’S Quarrel with Gratitude 151
12. Parting with Prejudice 175
13. Vico, “Tenderness,” and “Barbarism” 196
14. Kant and the Relegation of the Passions 217
15. Beliefs and Emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) 231
16. Contributors 251
17. Notes 253
18. Index 311